Agatha Christie's Classic Mystery Collection (Dead Man's Folly / Murder in Three Acts / Thirteen at Dinner / A Caribbean Mystery / Murder with Mirrors / Murder is Easy / The Man in the Brown Suit / Sparkling Cyanide) (8-DVD)

Starring: Helen Hayes; Peter Ustinov & Anthony Andrews

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A Caribbean Mystery: (1983) There's no vacation from crime-solving when a doctor-prescribed stay in the West Indies plunges shrewd Miss Marple into A Caribbean Mystery. Suspects (including Swoosie Kurtz and Barnard Hughes), charming resort vistas, new victims, steadily mounting clues and a desperate race against time to unmask the killer before he or she strikes again -- all give shape to a multilayered whodunit based on Dame Agatha Christie's novel. Teleplay by Sue Grafton.

Murder with Mirrors: (1985) Helen Hayes returns as spinster sleuth Jane Marple and Leo McKern ("Rumpole of the Bailey") plays the crafty inspector who teams with her in this engaging twisty case of country-house intrique. Bette Davis stars.

Murder is Easy: (1981) Murder is also an intriguing puzzle for armchair sleuths in this sprightly adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel. Bill Bixby plays Luke Williams, a computer whiz vacationing in England. He befriends Lavinia on the train ride to Marylebone Station, decides to take up the case himself and soon finds even a computer can't predict human behavior.

Dead Man's Folly: (1985) Peter Ustinov is Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot, pitting his little grey cells against a cunning killer in a lively adaption of Agatha Christie's novel. Jean Stapleton ("All in the Family") co-stars as Poirot's old friend.

Murder in Three Acts: (1986) Tony Curtis joins Ustinov, playing the ultra-Hollywood Cartwright. The setting is a posh villa in Acapulco, where suspects and motives abound.

Thirteen at Dinner: (1985) Set in Hollywood-on-Thames (in and around London) Poirot is plunged into the alien world of a film crew. With suspects aplenty, including Faye Dunaway in a dual role), Thirteen at Dinner is a full-course mystery.

The Man in the Brown Suit: (1988) Rue McClanahan ("The Golden Girls"), Tony Randall ("The Odd Couple"), and others headline this clever, fast-paced version of Agatha Christie's tale of murder and foreign intrigue. The one important clue: who is the stranger in the brown suit who seems to pop up wherever there's a dead body?

Sparkling Cyanide: (1983) Prominent lawyer George Barton (Josef Sommer) has the time, resources and determination to find out who slipped a fatal dose of cyanide into his wife's glass of wedding-anniversary bubbly. However, when George recreates the crime he becomes the next victim! Anthony Andrews and Harry Morgan portray officers investigating the murders.

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Drama | Mysteries | Mystery | Mystery / Suspense

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